Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors

The platform vendors are running scared. They were caught by surprise by the SOA debacle, and now they see the same writing on the Cloud Computing wall. As their customers started figuring out that SOA success didn’t depend on buying new software after all, but rather was a better way to organize existing IT assets, now Cloud Computing may replace the need to own those assets altogether. Imagine a world where <a href=”http://www.zapthink.com/2009/10/28/is-there-a-future-for-enterprise-software/”>enterprises no longer purchase software at all</a>! Why bother, when they can rent it on the Cloud, pay as they go, and never have to worry about maintaining or upgrading the big packages that have kept the vendors’ stock prices up for so long?

Open Source Solutions for SOA: Check Your Bias at the Door

Make sure you aren’t losing an advantage by prematurely eliminating OSS from your SOA infrastructure mix.

Scaling SOA with Complex Systems Engineering

Ever since ZapThink published our Business Agility as an Emergent Property of SOA ZapFlash, we’ve been explaining in our Licensed ZapThink Architect course how SOA implementations must be complex systems in order to deliver on emergent properties like business agility. Yet, even though we’ve expanded our treatment of Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) in the latest version of the course, the reaction of most of our students is typically one of perplexity.

Not that we’re really surprised, however. Breaking away from the Traditional Systems Engineering (TSE) way of thinking is a huge leap for most technologists, as it shakes to the foundation how they think about architecture, not just SOA in particular, but even more fundamentally, the role IT plays in the enterprise.

Business Event Processing and SOA

Edited by Ronald Schmelzer
At the dawn of the computer age, forecasters predicted all manner of changes in day-to-day life, including fully automated kitchens, cars that drove themselves, paperless offices, and more. In all of these now-quaint views of the future, the prognostication focused on applying the technologies of the future to the problems of the [...]

The Christmas Day Bomber, Moore’s Law, and Enterprise IT

Amid the posturing and recriminations following this past December’s ill-fated terrorist attack by the Nigerian Christmas bomber, the underlying cause of the intelligence breach has gone all but unnoticed. how is it the global post-9/11 anti-terrorist machine could miss a lone Nigerian with explosives in his underwear? After all, chatter included reference to “the Nigerian,” [...]

Getting on with 2010 and Celebrating ZapThink’s 10 year Anniversary

What does the future bode for SOA, IT, and ZapThink in the year (s) ahead?

Scaling SOA

Based upon conversations with architects in ZapThink’s <link>Licensed ZapThink Architect</a> (LZA) course, our <a href=”http://test.zapthink.com/2006/09/20/high-performance-soa/”>High Performance SOA</a> ZapFlash back in the fall of 2006 was a bit ahead of its time. In 2006, most architects were simply focusing on how to put SOA implementations together, but today, the focus has unquestionably shifted to how to make SOA implementations enterprise-class. As a result, there is predictably an increasing emphasis on scalability.
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Conventional wisdom might suggest that SOA implementations scale poorly. While it’s true that abstraction layers always add some overhead, if your SOA implementation is too slow or doesn’t scale properly, the problem is more likely with how you went about architecting it, rather than a problem with the SOA approach itself. Understanding the best practices for building scalable, high performance SOA implementations, therefore, is an essential skill for any SOA architect.

ماذا تفعل إذا تم إلغاء مبادرة البنية الموجهة للخدمات الخاصة بك

Arabic translation of “What To Do When your SOA Initiative Gets Cancelled“

هل هناك مستقبل للتطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية

هل هناك مستقبل للتطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية

ترجمة: وائل الخواص – 7 ديسمبر 2009

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غالبا ما يتبادر الحديث ضمناً عن دور ومستقبل التطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية عند الحديث عن البنية القائمة على الخدمات (SOA). ففى الواقع فإن زاب ثينك (ZapThink) تتحدث منذ …

What To Do When your SOA Initiative Gets Cancelled

We at ZapThink are an idealistic and optimistic bunch. We tend to see the positive side of well thought-out IT initiatives and believe that when rational planning meets incremental expenditure that provides short-term returns, all is well and companies can sail smoothly ahead. However, we realize that is not the …